Patents by Inventor Ryan W. Nicholson

Ryan W. Nicholson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Expanding data collection from a monitored cloud environment
    Patent number: 12500911
    Abstract: An example method includes: receiving, by a data platform configured to collect data from a plurality of service endpoints of a cloud environment, a request to onboard an additional service endpoint for data collection by the data platform; collecting, by the data platform operating in a preview mode of operation based on the request, first data from the plurality of service endpoints and second data from the additional service endpoint; monitoring, by the data platform operating in the preview mode of operation based on the request, for errors associated with the collecting of the first data and the second data; disabling, by the data platform when the monitoring detects an error within a defined period, data collection from the additional service endpoint; and integrating, by the data platform when the monitoring does not detect an error within the defined period, the additional service endpoint into normal data collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. Nicholson, Carter T. Abdallah, Amol Patil, Ashwin Jayaprakash, Venkata Rama Rajesh Gudivada, Yijou Chen, Sowmya A. Karmali